clojure.xml unable to find method on SAXparser

Question

I am using clojure 1.3.0, and clojure.xml, however, trying to parse XML produces: IllegalArgumentException No matching method found: parse for class com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeMatchingMethod (Reflector.java:79) (this is java 1.6) - a version mismatch between sax parsers and clojure 1.3? EDIT: I also tried Clojure 1.4, same problem. Must be a JDK issue?

Accepted Answer

It was my misunderstanding of clojure.xml - when you pass it a string, it is looking for a URI of where to load the XML content. If you have XML as a string already, convert it to a stream and pass it to clojure.xml, something like:

```
(let [stream (java.io.ByteArrayInputStream. (.getBytes (.trim xml)))]
```

clojure.xml unable to find method on SAXparser

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